The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-10
NEWS OF Til WEEK

sos, 475. Cash In the Treasury, S459,-
991, 729.
AN excursion train on the Kansas
City and Pacific Railroad was thrown
into a ditch, neal Moran, Kansas. on
the LIST. A number of persons were
injured, one, it is thought, fatally.
"A despatch from Koehler, Mlehi-
gan, says terrible forest fires are raging
in that vicinity. The prevailing drouth
is the worst known for years. There
has been no rain since July 4th. All
vegetation IS scorched and late crops
are a total failure.
Later reports of the great storm in
Texas say that all the bridges in Hill
county were washed away, and the
damage to crops and farms will reach
500, 600. In Basque county and along
the line Of the Santa Fe railroad much
damage was also done. The Missouri
Pacific railroad have nearly n thous-
and men at work OF repairs near Grand
View. A train on the road was de-
| tanned on the prairie between ltasca
! and Grand View from Monday night
until the morning of the LIST, and many
of the passengers suffered severely for
want Of food.
-"Frank'' Hammond and Lizzie"
Tate were found dead in English's
woods, near Cincinnati, on the morn
ing of the I'd. a letter was found on
Hammond, saying: Crank Hammond
and Lizzie tate are both willing to
die, and it don't make any difference
to us what they say of u.s." Ham
mond was a married man, and ON
time ago took $1,000 of the joint earn
ings of himself and wife and eloped
with the widow Tate. 1t is not known
whether they agreed to kill themselves
or whether Hammond killed the
woman in anger and then killed HIM
self. Peter and Henderson Green. of
Lancaster, Kentucky, passed the house
of Ebenezer Cooley, about five miles
from town, on the evening of the LIST,
half drunk. and firing their pistols.
| They shouted to Cooley to get out of
the way. but he said nothing to them.
Presently they returned and fired at
Cooley, who returned the fire with a
shot gun and revo- vel. Peter Green
was killed, and Henderson Green NOR
tally wounded.
During August there was a de-
crease of $737, $40 in the total cIrcula-
ton and an increase of $l0.2l6, 200 in
the Treasury.
"A despatch from Flag Staff, Ari-
IONA, says reports received on the %,
reiterate the report that Sheriff Null
venom was shot in the encounter with
the Tewksbury-Graham OUTLAW In
Tonic Basin. He died soon after the
fight and five of the deputy sheriffs
with him were wounded in the same
| light. Eleven of the outlaws are re-
ported killed. Mulvenon and his posse
left Prescott a week ago with warrants
for the arrest of ten men who were i'm
| plicated in the killing OF three cowboys,
| Wild reports ale now in circulation,
and an armed posse has gone to The re-
lief of the deputy sher!fs.
Thomas Foster and George Miller,
prominent grocers Of Cincinnati, were
arrested on the I'd, for selling oleomar-
garine for pure butter. The substance,
on being analysed, was found to con-
tain 2 per cent. of butter and IS of tai
low, lard and salt. 1t vas sold for g
cents a pound.
"A despatch from Tucson, Arizona,
says a heavy earthquake shock was felt
there at 9 O'Clock on the morning Of
the LIST. 1t lasted seven seconds. The
oscillations we're northwest to south
east,
An epidemic of black diphtheria is
raging at Lockport, Penna., a town OF
about 200 inhabitants. Nearly half of
the population are reported down with
the disease, and thirteen deaths have
occurred within the past five days.
The victims are seized with black vOmit
and usually die within two or three
days. Recently an Old viaduct which
formed part of the State Canal was
destroyed by dynamite at that point,
leaving stagnant pools of water which,
it is believed, caused the epidemic.
A typhoid fever epidemic prevails
at Robertsdale, Huntington county,
Penna. There are about fifty cases,
and there have been nine deaths. The
physicians attribute the disease to I'm
clean wells.
Richard Emerson, 16 years Of age,
died at Kenosha, Wisconsin,, on the
evening of the 1st, of hydrophobia. He
was bitten about two months ago by a
pet dog, and the wound was cauterized.
"Before death came to his relief the
mattress and bedding were literally
torn up and scattered about the room"
"A telegram from Buffalo says: "a
tall, well dressed young woman, with
face yelled, arrived here on the train
from the East on the evening of the
Both ult., and left on the first Michigan
Central tram for Canada. While at
the depot she attracted attention by
smoking a pipe. The party is believed
to have been a man in disguise, and IS
now thought by some to have been the
missing Saco bank robber."
On the morning of the I'd
as a train of eleven cars, with 5O0
passengers, from Cincinnati, reached a
point about a mile from Lebanon, an
| obstruction, made of railroad ties and
fence rails, was encountered. fortu-
nately the train had stopped only a
short distance before it To allow some
passengers to get off, and had not OBJ
tanned sufficient speed to be seriously
damaged,
Jack" Turner, leader of a faction
in a mountain vendetta, in Bell
county, Kentucky, was shot dead by
by a party in ambush at P~lneville, in
that county, on the I'd. His body was
pierced by fifteen bullets and a load of
buckshot. The vendetta began in a
family quarrel about twenty years
ago. Besides his father-in-law and
brother-in-law. Turner had killed the
Sheriff of the county and three other
men. At Flemingsburg, Kentucky,
early on the morning Of the 81, one
hundred masked men took Charles
Coleman, colored, from the jail and
lynehed hun. He had crlminally as
saulted a young white woman. James
| Kelly, a dissolute man, on the evening
of the ID stole up behind his wife. in
BInghamton, New York, and struck
her on the head with a pickaxe. She
| will probably die. Mary Sylvester, a
country girl, 10 years old, arrived I'm
! Minneapolis on the I'd and applied for
work at. the intelligence office OF Lew